“The White House is pushing a deal on Capitol Hill to head off a government shutdown that would lift strict spending caps long opposed by Democrats in exchange for money for President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico, multiple sources said.

“Marc Short, the White House’s director of legislative affairs, met with top staffers from both parties on the Senate Appropriations Committee last week to make a hard sell for the proposal, the sources said.

“Short — who said the border funding would be used for a ‘double fence’ — stressed that the White House is insisting on a down payment for construction this fall.

Short also lobbied for a big budget increase for the Pentagon, another priority for Trump.”

With Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, this shouldn’t be much of a problem for President Trump.

Unfortunately, we have a number of “yesterday’s leaders” in the Republican Party still hanging on to power in an attempt to prove their significance.

Which is sad, because there is a whole new generation of exciting young conservatives who could replace them and actually accomplish something positive for the nation.